Expanding the Comfort Zone: A Materials Scientist Experiences Life in the U.S. Department of State

摘要

Jefferson Science Fellows are tenured academic scientists and engineers from U.S. institutions of higher learning who spend a year at the U.S. Department of State providing up-to-date expertise on scientific issues that affect decisions related to foreign policy and international relations. The JSF program was inaugurated in 2004, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation, partly in response to an earlier report from the National Research Council that had identified the dwindling influence of science as a weakness in creating foreign policy for an increasingly technological world. The National Academies select the fellows and manage the program.